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Originally Posted by Craig
Overall, I also want smaller government but I think I'm missing your point.
Are you concerned because the stimulus package is creating public jobs instead of private jobs? I believe that was intentional, it is much easier (and faster) to directly create jobs than to wait for a "trickle down" effect. You can help wall street recover with fiscal policy, but you will have a "jobless recovery" for some period of time until the markets actually believe that it's for real.
I have no problem with the creation of "youth services jobs" in the short term if it helps drive down unemployment. I guess we could just use more money to "rescue" banks instead, would that create more jobs in the short term?
The reality is that the government only has a few mechanisms to dump cash into the economy.
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I'm concerned, because, imo, the stimulus is creating few new jobs. Most of the jobs created or saved are the latter, not the former. That's my guess.
Sheet, they're sending and extending and re-extending unemployment benefits out to people to to do
N-o-t-h-i-n-g. That ain't work in my part of the world.
Youth service jobs? Keepin' em off the streets mostly is my hunch. The folks at the Census Bureau are hiring. $15.00 an hour for door knockers. Probably plenty of openings since Acorn got cut loose from the gravy train.
The government class has shared little of the pain. That's my beef.
"Gimme, Gimme. Gimme." Public educators too.